"Winston's special" - No.2. (convoy code "WS2") : a description of one of the early, and large, special convoys to leave the UK in mid 1940, written by and for (now all retired) child evacuee passengers/K. Benjamin.

This convoy, of seventeen ships, sailed from Liverpool and the Clyde 5.8, ORION returning the following day with engine defects; she is not therefore allocated a place in the sailing plan below as, after repairs, she sailed as an independent to Capetown, then joining the Bombay section of the convoy WS 2B, at that port and sailing on 31.8.40. The destroyers HARVESTER, HAVELOCK, HIGHLANDER and HURRICANE escorted the Liverpool ships, while FORTUNE, FURY, VORTIGERN and WATCHMAN brought out the Clyde ships, all destroyers parting company 7.8. The cruisers EMERALD and SHROPSHIRE sailed from the Clyde and CORNWALL from Liverpool; EMERALD left with the destroyers on 7.8, the two remaining ships staying with the convoy into the Indian Ocean.